"These buttons, placed at convenient spots for easy reach of women travellers above the electric switches, when pressed will denote the coach where there is emergency and the railway staff present in the train will be informed to promptly attend to the emergency," a senior railways official said.

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) expects to begin service on a 107-kilometre train route from Battambang to Pursat on May 29, saying on their Facebook page that officials are actively working on restoring the track.

MTR Corp Ltd plans to deploy shorter trains, but at increased intervals, on the East Rail Line to help alleviate congestion in stations, lawmaker and former KCR chairman Michael Tien Puk-sun said yesterday.

Here’s a figure that should really worry you: 2017-18 saw a 25 per cent increase in rail and weld fractures, the highest in the last three fiscal years. Rail fractures are one of the major causes for train derailments that could cause human fatalities.

A strategic partnership which aims to ‘identify and pursue cross-border corporate finance and investment opportunities’ linked to China’s Belt & Road Initiative has been announced by the Singapore-listed Sapphire Corp parent of Chinese urban rail construction company Ranken and the Singapore subsidiary of Hong Kong-based financial services group Haitong International Securities.

A 7-year-old girl was found dead after being hit by a train in central Japan, authorities said Tuesday, with police investigating the incident as a possible murder due to the victim’s body showing signs of having been strangled.

The distance between Maye Cristobal's house and her office in Manila's Makati business district is just 5km, but the 26-year-old lawyer often has to travel for one and a half hours. And that's just one way.

HE reportedly ordered a six pack of beer when he arrived at his hotel in Kanchanaburi but, after 101 years on the planet, a taste for the grog might be all the “toxic masculinity’’ that Harold Martin has left in his locker.

The construction of a new high-speed railway line in India is scheduled to officially get underway this year, connecting the commercial capital of Mumbai and the industrial city of Ahmedabad in the western part of the country.